Paul Ellering

And he said, did you ever think about being a manager?

He says, be careful because you get stigmatized as a manager, then that's where you'll be the rest of your career.

And I had a, even before I got into wrestling, I was in college and I had a premonition dream

that I was a wrestling manager.

So this was five years before I even thought about wrestling.

And when Ole said that, I said, let's do it.

And the rest was history.

I started managing Spoiler and Jake the Snake, Buzz Sawyer.

And then I managed Arne Anderson and Matt Bourne.

They were the tag team.

And Matt got himself into some trouble.

And so we were without a tag team.

So Ole goes up to Minneapolis and talks to Eddie Sharkey, who had a training camp going at the time.

And he found Mike and Joe there, Animal and Hawk, and said, would you guys be interested in coming to Georgia Championship Wrestling?

And they said, oh, hell yeah, yeah, yeah.

So, well, he says, okay, be there the next week.

And they flew in and I picked them up at the airport, took them to TV.

And we were on TV the first day.

And they were champions.

And the rest was history.